Re: A proposed Roadmap

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:40:04PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 04:02, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

> > Most Wiki are bad since they require people to have network access
> > to be able to edit them, and a web browser; this includes DokuWiki.
> > I'd rather see ikiwiki or similar which stores files as plain text,
> > which you can put into a CVS repository or similar.

> I'm not opposed to using ikiwiki. It would have the advantage of
> sharing the same markup syntax with the Hurd wiki. I'll download
> ikiwikie today and take a look at it. I already have an SVN repository
> on that box for it to use. However, I don't see how it will help
> someone with no net access. Unless you're going to come by my office
> and physically access the server, you'll still need net access to get
> to SVN. 

The point is that you can check out the repository while you are online,
then work on the files offline, and check in your changes once you are
online again.

Of course, this gets hairy if you are working on multiple unrelated
changes before getting online again. It works much better with a
distributed VCS: You can just check in all your changes individually to
your local repository, and then push them to origin in one go once you
are online again. That's why we are using git for the Hurd wiki instead
of CVS or SVN.

-antrik-